11-03-2006, 05:05 PM
Natalie is showing mighty fine sprawl technique.
She'll be safe from anacondas.
I should stop right there, but I'll chance an explanation.
I recently heard a WWII aneddote. Some US soldiers are crossing an island in the Pacific. They're a demolition squad, carrying explosives, seeking out enemy weapon stockpiles and blowing them up. They'r traveling through dense jungle, and the going is rough.
At night they pair up on opposite sides of trees to stand watch. They're supposed to stand and stay awake all night, but of course that's an impossibility. Soon they're all asleep.
They wake to blood-curdling screams. One soldier scrambles around his tree to see his partner in a compromising position. An anaconda has swallowed one of his legs all the way up to his groin. It can't get any further. If the guy had slept with his legs together, who knows what his situation would have been.
The number one concern is the guy's screaming. This is a stealth operation, after all. Once they've stuffed his mouth with cloth, they try to remove the anaconda. Pulling doesn't work. Cutting doesn't work either. It just makes the snake squirm all over the place. The brain of the group then has an epiphany. He pours gas all over the snake and lights it. Now they've got an anaconda on fire -- on a guy's leg -- squirming all over the place.
The vision must have been fantastic.
I think they eventually managed to cut the anaconda open lengthwise and get the guy free. His leg was raw and hairless from the digestive juices, but he was okay. Physically. I doubt his mind was ever okay after that.
Anyway, sprawl technique. Use it. You'll thank me later.
Brazil and Peru lose lots of ballerinas every year to anacondas.
--cranefly
She'll be safe from anacondas.
I should stop right there, but I'll chance an explanation.
I recently heard a WWII aneddote. Some US soldiers are crossing an island in the Pacific. They're a demolition squad, carrying explosives, seeking out enemy weapon stockpiles and blowing them up. They'r traveling through dense jungle, and the going is rough.
At night they pair up on opposite sides of trees to stand watch. They're supposed to stand and stay awake all night, but of course that's an impossibility. Soon they're all asleep.
They wake to blood-curdling screams. One soldier scrambles around his tree to see his partner in a compromising position. An anaconda has swallowed one of his legs all the way up to his groin. It can't get any further. If the guy had slept with his legs together, who knows what his situation would have been.
The number one concern is the guy's screaming. This is a stealth operation, after all. Once they've stuffed his mouth with cloth, they try to remove the anaconda. Pulling doesn't work. Cutting doesn't work either. It just makes the snake squirm all over the place. The brain of the group then has an epiphany. He pours gas all over the snake and lights it. Now they've got an anaconda on fire -- on a guy's leg -- squirming all over the place.
The vision must have been fantastic.
I think they eventually managed to cut the anaconda open lengthwise and get the guy free. His leg was raw and hairless from the digestive juices, but he was okay. Physically. I doubt his mind was ever okay after that.
Anyway, sprawl technique. Use it. You'll thank me later.
Brazil and Peru lose lots of ballerinas every year to anacondas.
--cranefly